Device for creasing trousers.



I. B. MAGOMBER.

DEVICE FOR OREASING TROUSERS.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR. 13, 1912.

1,664,921 Patented June 17, 1913.

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ISAAC B. MACOMBER, OF PORTSMOUTH, RHODE ISLAND.

DEVICE FOR CREASING TROUSERS.

Application filed March 13, 1912.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, Isl-mo B. MAooMBEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Creasing Trousers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for creasing trousers, and the objects of the invention are to produce a device that is capable of manual operation or which can be used in a stationary position; which device is composed of a pair of creasing members that are heated by the steam issuing from a suitable steam generator, which steam is also discharged onto the trousers to assist in the creasing operation.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the present invention showing the same in the act of creasing a pair of trousers. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the device partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevation of a modification of the invention, and Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of the presser plates and the means for forcing same toward each other.

The invention includes a water container 1 to which an alcoholic lamp 2 is detachably connected by spring arms 8. To the top of the water container is secured a pipe 4 that has a handle 5 rigidly secured thereto to permit manual operation or manipulation of the device in an evident manner. The pipe 4 that is connected to the water container 1 conducts the steam to the bifurcated end 6 of the pipe 4. The bifurcated end 6 of the pipe 4 has a horizontal disposition and the furcations of the end 6 of the pipe 4 are each provided with a vertically extending presser plate 7 the outer ends of which are turned outwardly at 8 to permit the same to easily receive the edges of the trousers. The presser plates 7 are normally forced toward each other by means of a substantially U shaped spring 9, the sides of which engage on opposite sides of the presser plates 7 and are provided with thumb screws 10, which latter bear against said plates 7 and are adjustable and thereby allow of regulation of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 17, 1913.

Serial No. 683,517.

the degree of tension that the spring exerts on the presser plates 7.

The device is capable of use in a stationary position, in which use the trousers would be moved vertically through the furcations of the end 6 of the pipe 4 and presser plates 7 while the latter and connected parts are held stationary.

In Fig. 1 a table A is shown in dotted lines upon which the device is set, the device being held in a stationary position by means of a spring wire clip C which may be of any suitable form.

As a further illustration of the use of the device where same is held stationary, it will be seen by reference to Fig. 5 that a stove S may have a tea-kettle K placed at one side thereof, the kettle being held rigidly to the stove by means of a clamp C. In this form of the invention the pipe 4 is cut off and is received in a suitably formed sleeve 11 that projects into the spout of the tea-kettle to prevent the escape of the steam at the joint between the kettle spout and the pipe 4.

In operation, the steam enters the pipe 4 and in its escape therefrom is caused to contact with each side of the trousers leg. At the same time the steam coming in contact with the presser plates 7 will heat the latter, and the plates will then uniformly press the trousers on both sides, at the same time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a device for pressing trousers a split tubular part adapted to receive the trousers leg in the split, a presser plate carried by said part on each side of the split, and means to supply steam to said tubular part.

2. In a device for creasing trousers, a pipe having a bifurcated end, the furcations of said end being each provided with a presser plate, a substantially U-shaped spring the sides of which engage the outer sides of said presser plates at one end thereof, and means to supply steam to said pipe.

3. A portable hand device for pressing trousers consisting of a pipe that has one end thereof bifurcated to receive the trousers leg in the space between the furcations, a steam generator connected to the opposite end of the pipe for supplying steam thereto,

and a handle connected to the pipe between In testimony whereof I have signed my its ends. name to this specification in the presence of 10 1 4:. In a defvice for pressing trousers, a pipe two subscribing Witnesses. iavin a bi urcated end .aresser late se- 1 5 cured to each fnrcation of said end means ISAAC MACOMBER' connected to the pipe to supply steam Witnesses; thereto, and means engaging the presser ADA E. HAGERTY, plates to force same toward each other. I J. A. MILLER.

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